 Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And, sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward, methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms, amidst the watery roar,...  Life of Oliver Goldsmith - Pàgina 44per Washington Irving - 1886 - 258 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 pàgines
...tide , Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward , methinks , and diligently slow , The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long...While the pent ocean rising o'er the pile , Sees an ambitious world beneath him smile ». But see how Gray , while he never falls below , more frequently... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 pàgines
...methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps...ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile : The slow canal, the yellow blossom 'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pàgines
...methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps...ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow tufted bank, the gliding... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pàgines
...methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps...ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile: The slow canal, the yellow blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pàgines
...methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amMst ssage down to th' earth, a passage wide. Wider by far than that of after times beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow blossom'd vale, The willow tufted bank, the gliding... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pàgines
...diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the wat'ry roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore....ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted b^nk, the gliding... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pàgines
...diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the wat'ry roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore ;...ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile \ The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding... | |
 | 1826 - 300 pàgines
...diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the wat'ry roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore :...ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-blosom'd vale, « The willow-tufted bank, the gliding... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 pàgines
...admirably depicted the entire scene. Onward methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected rampart seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amid the watery...ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-bosomed vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail,... | |
 | Moral and sacred poetry - 1829 - 326 pàgines
...diligently slow, The firm couneeted hulwark teems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the waiery roar. Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore. While the pent ocean rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphihious world heneath him smile; The slow canal, the yellow hlussom'd vale, The willow-tulted hank,... | |
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